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Hi martin
               I don't have any of the surnames you are researching but my Smith relations were farm labourers from Kirton End Boston, and i i found some useful info on them from Historical Directories dot org. a bit of a challenge to negotiate the site but worth it in the end. If you have not used the site before it gives you info on most trades and locations so may be worth looking for furniture makers on it. The dates mainly start from the 1850s but do have some prior to that. Good luck with your research.
                          Regards Oibert

OK so i have spent two days going through my fathers records and i can't seem to make head nor tail of them. The main problem i have is, the records seem to me to be disjointed, by that i mean there seems to be no sense in the time line ( they have him serving in a unit in 1944 followed by another unit in 1943) are the records normally like this and would it be advisable to formulate my own timeline before i go any further?  They also have him coming from a unit but not going to another unit, then 5 months later appearing at another unit. I suppose i expected this to all be ordered and clear but after all it was war time! I guess i just need to know if this is normal record keeping for the time, and what would be the best way to go about this?
This is only his time as an ac/2 and lac, I have only just glanced at his time as a flying officer and that seems to make a little more sense but the writting is hard to decipher in a lot of cases.
I would appreciate any help i could get to sort out his records.
                                                                                                  regards oibert.

thanks Imber
                    I appreciate your reply, i at least now have a better understanding of how they work. thank you.
                 regards oibert.

no problems
                   oibert

hi Kyt
         yes indeed my fathers surname was smith(you can imagine the trouble i have had!) but his forename was jack, and i believe he became a navigator, what rank would that be? So the plot thickens. As i do not have his birth cert yet i cannot tell if he had a second name, but i have copies of both his marriage certs and there is no mention of any other name bar jack. I am reasonably certain he was born in 1923 so i have just ordered a birth cert to try confirm that, so if that is the correct cert i can tell if he had another name. Just a thought what was the minimum age to join the raf? could his age help? Once again thank you for the reply.
                                                                                           regards oibert.